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634Nox subit, et curis exercita corpora somnus
635occupat: ante oculos eadem mihi quercus adesse
636et ramos totidem totidemque animalia ramis
637ferre suis visa est pariterque tremiscere motu
638graniferumque agmen subiectis spargere in arvis;
639crescere quod subito et maius maiusque videri
640ac se tollere humo rectoque adsistere trunco
641et maciem numerumque pedum nigrumque colorem
642ponere et humanam membris inducere formam.
643Somnus abit: damno vigilans mea visa querorque
644in superis opis esse nihil. At in aedibus ingens
645murmur erat, vocesque hominum exaudire videbar
646iam mihi desuetas. Dum suspicor has quoque somni
647esse, venit Telamon properus, foribusque reclusis
648“speque fideque, pater” dixit, “maiora videbis: